Mindanao Peace Worker
Visit to SF Bay Area

May 19 to 23, 2004

May 19
7 to 9 p.m.
San Francisco Friends Meeting House
65 Ninth Street, San Francisco
(Near Market Street, take
Civic Center BART or MUNI)

May 22
2 to 5 p.m.
PUSOD, 1808 Fifth Street, Berkeley
(Near Hearst St., for directions visit
http://www.pusod.org/directions.html)

CHITO Generoso, coordinator of the Philippine-based Interfaith Center for a Culture of Nonviolence, will be in the Bay Area from May 19 to 23. Generoso is a co-founder of PAKAT which stands for Pangkapayapaang Adhikaing Kusang-dangal Aksyong Tagapamagitan. They are bringing together Muslims, Christians and Lumad (indigenous peoples) to seek peaceful solutions to the conflicts in the war-torn southern island of Mindanao in the Philippines and protect civilian populations there from the violence.

Generoso will speak on May 19 and 22 at the events indicated above, which are open to the public.

The Bay Area events are sponsored by American Friends Service Committee, Peaceworkers, PAKAT, the Nonviolent Peaceforce, PUSOD (Center for Culture, Ecology and Bayan) and Mindanao Crisis Coalition. Refreshments will be served at both events.

For more information, or to set up additional meetings with Generoso, contact David Hartsough at the Nonviolent Peaceforce at +415 751 0302 or Christina Leaño at +510 517 7140.